Aunty (anti) FOX

The annual Beer and Bluegrass Festival at Keystone Village, up in the high country. Meeting the kids, who are spending a couple of nights at Nate's condo. Always a good time, but it seems like the year, between festivals, is getting shorter all the time. Didn't we just do this a couple of months ago???? Went looking for a pic, to illustrate my blog, and googled the festival. Look at what came up on the first page of Google. Carol and Kari, from 2 years ago. Not a good pic of Kari, but it is kinda interesting. The pic was lifted, from Laura's blog, I see.

but the Rockies just scored 12 runs in the 8th, after they had 2 outs. Poor Cubbies had a bunch of records scored on 'em tonight. The Rocks batted around, TWICE, and left the bases loaded, as Barmes was coming up to bat for the third time in the inning. The ALL time major league record, from the 20's, was 12 consecutive hits, and the Rocks had 11, before the 12th batter was walked. Game went from 5-2, to 17-2, and it was all done with 2 outs. 12 extra-base hits. Amazing...

The Repubs keep saying, "How come you can't fix the huge, stinking mess, we made, and, by the way, we want it RIGHT NOW?" AND, (whine, whine) quit blaming us just cuz the economy was totally wrecked after 8 years of Bush and the Repubs. We don't want to hear that, any more. (Wah, wah...) It's time you Dems took some responsibility for the problems we Repubs caused. (Whine, cry, bitch and moan...)

"As I said below, I quit being a Christian. I'm out. In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of ...Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen." She was finally able to say, what a lot of us feel, but are afraid to say in public. Christianity has been hi-jacked by the hard-core right wing and is no longer recognizable, as a loving religion, but is now a political business. Sad, but true....

that Kari is using the tix, that she bought w/the money she won, in the schools' biggest loser' contest. Yup, she's near the front for Lady Gaga. Hope she's having a great time. She worked hard to win it, so now it's time to celebrate. Enjoy, honey. Just wonder how she dressed? If I know Kari, it's something that'll jump out at ya.

We started watching the 'Lost' series, downstairs. It's a nice finished basement, but when I was cleaning up down there, this morning, I saw a spider near my recliner, SO, I turned the chair upside down, and sprayed the inside with bug killer spray, just in case there were any more. I noticd later, that every time I shifted position, I got a whiff of the spray. After a while, I was SICK. Nauseated and dizzy. Didn't put it together at first, but noticed after I left, I got better, then when I went back was sick again. I poisoned myself w/bugspray. Flipped the chair over and put a fan on it. Bailey walked into the room and freaked out, sniffing the air, w/the chair upside down, slinking all over and bouncing off the ceiling when there was a noise. Hopefully it's over now, but I was SICK.

about how I was SO sick of hearing how bad the oil leak in the gulf was/is. In this article, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38439191/ns/us_news-the_new_york_times/ , you can read how most of the oil has dissipated, and they are having a hard time trying to find something to clean up. I am NOT saying we are out of the woods or that this wasn't a terrible spill/ecological mess. BUT, the main damage has been from the gov't overreacting and shutting down WAY too much fishing and drilling in the area, throwing a whole lotta people out of work. Sure, the oil is a mess, and will continue to be, but it's not the HUGE disaster that the media fed us for months. Our REAL problem is the economy that Bush and the Repubs thoroughly trashed. If we could only skim and clean our way out of that.....

why I rail against FOXNews, Rush and their ilk?. Wed Jul 7, 12:21 pm ET Rush Limbaugh said on his July 2 radio show that he believes Obama tanked the economy on purpose, both as "payback" for 230 years of racial oppression and because Obama simply doesn't like America. He railed: "Who is Obama? Why is he doing this? Why? Why is he doing it? Is he stupid? Is it an accident? Is he doing it on purpose or what have you? ... I think we face something we've never faced before in the country -- and that is, we're now governed by people who do not like the country, who do not have the same reverence for it that we do. Our greatest threat (and this is saying something) is internal." At the same time, Glenn Beck says Obama has a 'deepseated hatred of whites'. This, after Bush tanked our economy and Obama and the Dems are just trying to keep us afloat. Just when I think the rightwing can't get any more stupid, they come up with something like this. An...

on Discovery Channel, tonight, about Pompei, where we have visited. History shows how an earthquake hit first, before the volcano, and the inhabitants spent all their time and energy restoring the temples, cuz they thought the 'gods' were upset with them, instead of preparing for the 'real' damage to come. Sorta like today, as the economic collapse washes over us. Lots of people are totally unprepared....

Netflix, through Wii, which is pretty cool. Through our wireless router, for $8.99/month, we can download unlimited movies and TV series, in addition to sending a disc (new movie, etc.) back and forth in the mail. Watched 'Julie and Julia', a cute movie last night, and started the 'Lost' series today, w/the downloads. Had heard a lot about Lost, but had never gotten into it. Watched the first 2 episodes today and it looks like it's gonna be pretty good. Very highly rated and the kids recommend it, SO, here we go. Also, the Wii is downstairs, where it is much cooler during the day. Don't even need the AC. Bailey can't get used to us being there, as she thinks it is HER domain. Will let you know how it goes....

A graduate student in Georgia is suing her university after she was told she must undergo a remediation program due to her beliefs on homosexuality and transgendered persons. The student, Jennifer Keeton, 24, has been pursuing a master's degree in school counseling at Augusta State University since 2009. The ACA Code of Ethics prohibits counselors from discriminating based on a number of factors, including gender identity and sexual orientation. "Counselors do not discriminate against clients, students, employees, supervisees, or research participants in a manner that has a negative impact on these persons," the code says. SOO, the problem here is.... She wants to be an accredited, licensed counselor, dealing with kids in public schools, but she professes that homosexuality is a 'disease' that can be cured, or 'demon posssession', that can be exorcised. You see any problem there? I sure do. If she wants to be a counselor in a Christian school, with her be...

about the military-industrial complex, which guides US foreign policy, this article appeared. DHB, which specialized in making body armor used by the military in Iraq and Afghanistan , paid for more than $6 million in personal expenses on behalf of Mr. Brooks, covering items as expensive as luxury cars and as prosaic as party invitations, pornographic videos for his son, plastic surgery for his wife, a burial plot for his mother, prostitutes for his employees, and, for him, a $100,000 American-flag belt buckle encrusted with rubies, sapphires and diamonds. The expense-account abuse, the prosecution has said, represented a pittance compared with the $190 million that Mr. Brooks and another top employee are accused of making through a stock fraud scheme in which he falsified information about his company’s performance — including significantly overstating the inventory of bulletproof vests — to inflate the price of the stock before selling his shares in 2004. Body armor, just one of tho...

about the war in Afghanistan, make it hard to realize how anyone with a functioning brain, (which excludes the FOX crowd) can support this waste of lives, money and time, fighting a war that CANNOT be won. There is no winnable end in sight, BUT, the right wing jerks just love the thought of us fighting someone, somewhere, so they can feel 'tough'. Something they aren't able to do in real life, is doable, through the gov't and the military. Sickening, but typical of the military-industrial complex and the sheep who support them. The same people in "Charley Wilson's War', with the same missles we bought for them, are fighting us, tooth and nail, in their own country, as they have fought foreigners for generations, and never lost. Am SO disappointed in Obama, cuz he won't stand up to the jerks that support this waste. Makes him as bad as them, cuz he knows better. Just sickening, when you think of the cost, in lives and suffering, just cuz some people can...

are in a race to see who can self-destruct first. The latest salvo comes from Ken Buck, who had gotten the support of the Tea Party. Not knowing he was being taped, he said, "Will you tell those dumbasses at the Tea Party to stop asking questions about birth certificates while I'm on camera?" Buck said at a June event. "What am I supposed to do?" Gota love them Repubs and the Tea Partiers....

as my partner and I finished 'in the money', in the member/membe golf tourney at Coal Creek. Split $225, and my Calcutta team did pretty good, too. THEN, I came home to Kari's birthday party, 'in progress', on the deck. Piper was in her blow up pool and everyone was sitting around it, with their feet in the water (poor kid!). I kinda blew it though, cuz it took me too long to notice Kari had gotten her hair cut (8 1/2 "). I was DISTRACTED, by the cute kid in the pool who was teasing me with kisses. Anyway, Kari looks good with her new cut and we had a great party.

about a month after the last time I posted that Bailey was out cruising, during the full moon. Guess what? A full moon, again, and she's been gone for about 5 hours. The bad news? There's a large 'great horned owl' sitting on our, and our neighbor's, roofs. Scares the heck outta me. Carol is out with the kids, and Bailey is out 'who knows where', with a huge owl hunting our neighborhood. Pretty scary as I keep walking around calling her. Little BRAT!, you need to get inside.

I put on the DVR, then watch at my convenience, my favorite is 'Deadliest Catch', the true story of the guys that fish the Bering Sea for crab. I used to think that $18/lb was REALLY expensive. Now, I think it is a bargain, after seeing what these guys go through, to fill the tanks. This season was even more REAL, as one of my favorite guys, Capt Phil, died. Lots of hard work, suffering and injuries, but Phil was the first of the TV crew to actually die. Pretty tough way to make a living. Lotta widows and orphans up there....

the right-wing, redneck 'jeniuses', who have disputed the 'over 95%' of scientists who say the earth is warming, in favor of the Rush/O'Reilly crowd who disputes it, are enjoying getting their asses cooked during this latest hot spell. They love to quote the 'lunatic fringe' who doubts that warming is real. I gotta love it, as I watch from Broomfield, where it is 68 right now.

of the two day member/member golf tourney at Coal Creek. It's the biggest tournament of the year, for the men's club, with a Calcutta, which raised $10,990 for the payout, on TOP of the the regular prize money. My partner, Phil Clarkson, and I are right in the middle of the pack with absolutely NO breaks the first day. If it could bounce wrong, or catch the edge of the cup, it did. Feel good about tomorrow, but gotta get home early cuz it's Kari's birthday party at our house. If we get any breaks at all, tomorrow, we'll be in the money. At least that's how I see it, at this point. Oh yeah, and it's free beer. Will let you know how it goes.

my blog service, BUT, they are gonna start charging me to see who visits my blog. Not much, and I am gonna pay, but I never had to, before. Yup, I see you 'lurkers' who check in, but NEVER comment. Must mean you agree with me. right? Anyway, go ahead and comment. It just makes you look creepy when you lurk, but never say anything. Never mind, I wouldn't wanna advertise my views, either, if they were way'out there', like most of my lurkers.